LX.—Three new African Rodents

some new leads for human african trypanosomiasis (african sleeping sickness)

Development of new African horsesickness cell culture killed vaccines

Afrojoyeuxia gen. n. and Hunkeleriella gen. n., two new genera of cestodes (Cyclophyllidea: Anoplocephalidae) from African rodents.

Based on the study of type material, two new genera of cestodes (Cyclophyllidea: Anoplocephalidae) are proposed for Paranoplocephala Lüihe, 1910 sensu lato species from African rodents. Afrojoyeuxia gen. n., proposed for A. gundii (Joyeux, 1923) comb. n. from Ctenodactylus gundi (Rothmann) (Hystricomorpha: Ctenodactylidae), is characterized by a high length/width ratio of mature proglottids, lo...

New fossils from the Paleogene of central Libya illuminate the evolutionary history of endemic African anomaluroid rodents

Anomaluroid rodents show interesting biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns, although their fossil record is meager and knowledge of the natural history of extant members of the clade remains inadequate. Living anomaluroids (Anomaluridae) are confined to equatorial parts of western and central Africa, but the oldest known fossil anomaluroid (Pondaungimys) comes from the late middle Eocene...

African swine fever . New developments

With regard to epizootiology, diseased pigs are the major source of direct infection, while indirect spread is mainly caused by pork pro­ ducts and mechanical vectors. Information about the role of virus car­ riers in transmission of the infection is insufficient, but the role of ticks (Ornithodorus genus) and of wild pigs as virus reservoirs is well docu­ mented. The incidence and distribution...